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EXPLOSIONS

Exploding beer can for Bavaria 8,6

Floating ingredients for McDonalds

“Floating” vegetables of different weights are made to arrive at the same point in space together at the same time. This required phasing two explosions…

Exploding bottle

For Ketel 1 jenever…

Chocolate

Accidental chocolate explosion on the set of Mon Cheri.

Exploding blister pack for Pepsi

PET bottles are extremely resilient so that we needed a very high pressure. Colleague Robert Pachowski decided to use compressed nitrogen, which is supplied at an initial pressure of 200 atmosphere.

SFX Adrian Walton-Smith, Robert Pachowski and Ernest van Tongeren.

 Foam explosions

For the latest Duvel commercial, we exploded a glass of beer…We did this in several ways including shooting the glass vertically from underneath, from both sides, and we exploded the beer without a container…

We have tests of foam explosions, made with soap, beer and soap and liquid….

Exploding computers for MTV

We made tests outdoors to discover the proportion of debris versus dust that we would need to be using. The “explosion” was created using a compressed air “piggy” at high pressure. It was an ‘indoor” explosion shot inside STUDIO 1 at Amsterdam Studios. After the last “take” we were cleaned up in about an hour.

Here are some stills which we used these to analyse the explosion. From these photos we can see which proportion of dust to debris works best, and if the explosion will physically “fit” into it’s container? This effect was created using compressed air in a “woofer”.

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